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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9031

21 September 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/immigration
MEPs denounce conditions for hosting refugees in Lampedusa and “masquerading” of Italian authorities during their visit

Brussels, 20/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - MEPs of the Socialist Group returned scandalised from their visit to the refugee detention centre in Lampedusa (southern Sicily) last Thursday, they said at a press conference on Tuesday. The delegation, composed of MEPs from all parliamentary groups, had been officially sent there by the European Parliament to inspect the conditions in the centre where many asylum seekers and immigrants from Africa end up, and which has been at the centre of a polemic...

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